Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-30
DAILY HERALD.
THE CHAUTAUQUA.
The Interest I'm the University by
the Sea Increasing.

Chautauqua Assembly does not flag.
The crowds are increasing. Some
days there is almost famine, and
when the supplies do not give out, one
is obliged to wait his Chance" and
then he feels very much like getting
q famine on his Gown hook" The
prospects OF this fourth assembly are
very bright. Financially, lest year
was no comparison.
One thing everybody regrets.
Speakers who allowed themselves to
be put on the programme, fail in many
instances, greatly to the disappoint-
of all.
DIR. Ostrander's classes:
PROF. MooRE's SECOND LECTURE ON
ASTRONOMY.
Resuming the subject of stars, he
began by saying: There are double
stars. They may not be double, but
apparently so. There are about Il, 900
of these. These double stars do not
really revolve around each other, but
the motions were such that they ap-
peared to. These stars revolve around
each other once in from II to 90
years. Some of the double
stars under some telescopes ap-
pear double, double The star
castor in the constellation Ge-
neni is double in appearance, but
they prove to be in different systems.
The sun sends his light to us in eight
minutes, but there are stars in the
heavens the light of which being
blotted out, we should not know in
three thousand years. This gives us
an idea of the immense distance. A
star in Casiopea, three hundred years
ago, blazed out very brightly for sew
eral months and then disappeared.
An eminent astronomer of that time
searched and found record of its ap-
pearance three hundred years before !;
hence it was predicted by him that in
1872 it would again appear. 1t has
been watched for, but has not put in
an appearance. 1t is often called ''the
Star of Bethlehem"
He then told us about the unmade
up universe. That is, the telescope
reveals immense bodies of matter in
nebul@ form. These Uniformed
nebul@ have not had sufficient
heat to condense them into
form. Our system is constantly NOV
ing, and when it comes nearer these
nebulae, they appear from the light of
the sun bright, and assume tails from
their great motion, and hence the
comets.
These comets, having q revolution
around the sun, the matter thrown off
never gets back. 1t floats in space
and falls to our earth in the form of
meteors. There are very few comets
that have periodic revolution.
He said that by thus shivering
them, in a few revolutions they become
extinct; hence the non-appearance of
some of these mysterious bodies when
looked for by astronomers.
They come into our system like un-
hidden guests. The sun, having not
only an attractive but repelling pow
er, throws them off into space, else
they would dash themselves into his
mighty furnace and produce such a
commotion as to melt the mountains
of this earth and likely of all the plan
cts. The sun, in thus repelling these
strange gaseous bodies, shivers them
in their inconceivable flight, the
particles falling off producing
our meteors. The reason why
they fall more profusely at one time
than another, is because our system
falls into larger masses of this nebu-
lac. The particles so disintegrated,
darts with great velocity toward the
earth, and when in their flight, they
condense the atmosphere before them
to certain degree, they explode gen.
orally fifty to seventy-five miles from
the earth, by igniting the atmosphere.
1t is on the principle of lightning
The electricity is never seen but the
light and explosion, or thunder, is the
igniting of the atmosphere.
When any of these detached par
ticles are far enough away from the
solar rays as to be suddenly condensed
by the intense cold, there they fall to
our earth in the form of serolites or
meteoric stones.
A word on the danger of comets
colliding with our earth. 1t was pos
sible. 1t was estimated that the
chances were about one in three mil
lions. If one of the largest meteors
as it attains, three million times lar
ger than it is, all life would be extinct
in second, and the whole earth
would be melted.
DIR. osTRANDER's NORMAL CLASS.
The subject for the morning lesson
was The Progress or evelopment of
Revelation. All revelation comes to
l. =.
finite, but We are surrounded with
evidences of an infinite mind which is
ever desirous of revealing itself unto
us through the Bible. During all
ages there has been progress in the
methods of revelation. Through ma
ture, through mind, through types
and shadows of the Old Testament,
through prophecy, through Christ and
10y the Holy Spirit are we enabled to
more than "see through the glass
darkly."
There has been progress in the sub
jects Of revelation. A promise was
made, family was chosen. the per-
son OF that family was to fulfill the
promise. The atonement was made.
We have redemption for this world
and for the next. There is progress
in doctrinal revelation. The New
Testament adds light to the old.
There is progress in the revelation of
sin and revelation of the powers of
our salvation, widening of the doc
trines Of the Holy Spirit and keener
sense Of our duties and obligations as
regards our practical every day life.
The Old Testament training was in
negative obligations followed by the
positive. We are therein taught to
serve God through fear. The New
Testament teaches US to obey through
love, to hold on by faith, to prove that
God is love-"